Category: holy week

  • 7LW: Today

    7LW: Today

    This is the second in a series of posts on the Seven Last Words of Our Lord from the cross. There is a menu and a posting schedule at the bottom of this post. Today you will be with me in Paradise. PUT YOURSELF ON THE CROSS next to Jesus there. We want to imagine…

  • 7LW: Forgive

    7LW: Forgive

    This is the first in a series of posts on the Seven Last Words of Our Lord from the cross. This series will continue through Lent. There is a menu and a posting schedule at the bottom of this post. Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. Forgiveness IS NOT ONLY Something…

  • 7LW: Introduction

    7LW: Introduction

    FOR LENT THIS YEAR, as I have done for Advent for most of the last 20 years, I will post a series of meditations on a regular schedule. The theme for this series is the Seven Last Words of Our Lord, spoken from the Cross on Good Friday. There is a menu at the bottom,…

  • From the Seven Last Words

    This was a meditation was part of the Good Friday Seven Last Words at St Dominic’s Catholic Church in San Francisco. As a result of the current crisis, the meditations were recorded and posted on YouTube rather than preached from the pulpit. The video is shared at the end of this post. I thirst. Many…

  • A Devotion on the Symbols of the Passion

    A Devotion on the Symbols of the Passion

    From A Book of the Love of Jesus, A Collection of Ancient English Devotions in Prose and Verse, compiled and Edited by Fr Robert Hugh Benson (1915). Retrieved from the Archive, here. I’ve not edited the text at all so some of the words may include off-puttings, odd-spellings, or punctuations. O VERNACLE I honour him…

  • Holy Week Sonnets: Interlude

    The actors all are here in place, our playis set! The curtain ready rises now:Apostles, Traitor, Priests, & King all bow.Let us kneel down to watch the passion fray. Here Pharisees assembled make a vow.Here Judas strides with kiss through garden’s night.Here Pilate waits for judging by his light.Here Christ the Lamb of God all…

  • Sonnet V Judas

    Now Judas thief & liar, devil, friendHere come I carefully to you: for pot& kettle are both black & we are notThat far I think each from the other’s end.The Priceless One you sold for not a lot:the price of one escapéd slave. Yet Ijust any petty lust or care will buywith love I owe…

  • Sonnet IV The Harlot

    When trapp’d in sins the night without a moonis dark: no hope nor freedom found in lustthat fills this moment’s craving only. TrustAlone in God can make his lovers swoon.To Christ so now she comes. As come she mustfor rest, to whom men come for passions’ fall.So she whose empt’ing man can’t fill can callto…

  • Sonnet III – Pharisees

    Ye scribes & lawyers, hypocrites ye broodof vipers: pharisees who twirl the lawto lure a proselyte into your mawthen spit out worse; within your precepts stewed! The Torah’s words from out your crooked crawdraw obligations far too hard to bear.Our God’s Revealéd words for making fairyou twist in ways that Moses never saw. But turn…

  • Sonnet II Palm Sunday

    All glory laud & honor children sing:to thee hosanna, Lord, hosanna! Praisewe thee with them, our olive branches raise.Thy train in triumph through the gate we bring With garments strewn the road to glory lays:what ails the crowd that soon they’ll turn away?Here where we hear hosanna cried todaygreat hearts will fail as darkness on…

  • Sonnet I Lazarus Saturday

    Tiz better to have lov’d & lost: so saidthe Bard when speaking of the heart’s romance.What would he say if God & man did danceAs friends til mortal man is stoppéd dead? Then God can weeping fall in mourner’s tranceWhile sisters, neighbors, pharisees, & allwill wonder at his healing advent’s stall:when but one touch restor’d…

  • Prelude. Holy Week Sonnets

    JMJ I try to get through a little more every year. So, once again, I will try to make the Holy Week Sonnet Cycle complete. Prelude My Lord, always majestic is thy name. No man may sing thy praises worthily & mould’ring – wanting words to hear & see is often in believers’ hearts thy…

  • The American Way: Something about the Reaping…

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday 1 Advent (Year 2): Isaiah 11:1-10 Luke 10:21-24 Quod abscondisti hæc a sapientibus et prudentibus, et revelasti ea parvulis.  Thou hast hidden all this from the wise and the prudent, and revealed it to little children. Monty Pythons, Meaning of Life, Part VII, Death. Death walks into a rural…

  • This happened…

    Preparing to celebrate the Resurrection of Christ on Saturday Night, gathered in one room, not knowing it about each other, were: A Fraternity Brother whom I’ve known for 30 years. A Coworker whom I hadn’t met yet. A Goddaughter from the Orthodox Church, and her husband, now returned home. A musician with enough Anglican History…

  • Sonnet for Friday’s Dawn

    X – Peter Now Peter, liar, rock, Apostle, friend Here come I carefully to you: for pot & kettle are both black. May we be not That far by prayer each from the other’s end. The Priceless One betray’d by campfire hot: Your Galilean drawl just cant. Yet I Without a legal threat will try…